When a rich man dies,

it's a poor woman's joy.

Don't complain that

it's in bad taste.

When a poor man dies

a rich woman doesn't notice.

30.10.2014

c. m. bowra 1898-1971 in his later years

fat don

with a falling face

still after

all those public school boys

raped by their headmasters

rectums with lesions

to give with

the old slumping dick

some oxford tutoring

30.10.2014

"there is someone worse than us,

so don't blame Israel",

they say, the zionists,

like I would be on a mission

to find the worst single state in the world

instead of opposing evil universally

28.10.2014

a coward blames the victim

to avoid being the next one

ensuring there will be a next one

28.10.2014

life

is the fear

we experience

before death

18.10.2014

love

what doesn't it

ruin

changing to sorrow

through

loss

18.10.2014

Years

like leaves

ripped off from

the branches of a birch

by the autumn wind

growing colder

12.10.2014

all the wounds of life

tears

on your gravestone

12.10.2014

Throw a stone,

liberate yourself

in action

if you can't

liberate your body

and your land.

09.10.2014

Cave art from Sulawesi

Stencils of hands turned to dust,

red paint

all that has been left

for forty-thousand years

blink of an eye

09.10.2014

Pale green, orange, yellow and brown

- the fallen leaves on the ground,

the autumn collected.

09.10.2014

Every fallen leaf in autumn

is a a complete story

of life, death

and rebirth.

09.10.2014

Lutwidge the Snark

Those who want to hide

what they are

build labyrinths

for explorers to get lost in

instead of seeing

what was before them,

the burned pages of diaries

which family didn't want

to be seen.

09.10.2014

Do not reach for the beauty

which doesn't itself recognize yet,

only the blossom which opens in self-awareness

shall long be the joy of others.

09.10.2014

Only radical people change the world.

Conservative,

in ideology or in mindset,

only preserve what shall fall,

rotten,

either through the axe of the radical

or the slow decay of time.

And even this,

so long defended

was the work of radicals

of bygone eras.

From the very beginning

of his work of faith

has the preserver lost.

05.10.2014

of time

the past

a depository

of memories

true

and imagined

a path

through life

through

geological eras

through cosmic history

and we

we have the honour

to be included

when 'today'

is no more

and we

as true

and lifelike

and imagined

misunderstood

shall be a part of it

memories

shelved

turning to dust

04.10.2014

Just like hiding a great vice

behind a small one

you must hide a great virtue

behind a small one

and hope that the world

forgives you at least that

04.10.2014

Think of death

as a state of being

and then

think of white sheet of paper

untarnished

Death is not like that

there is no promise

like the sheet contains

of existence

there is nothing

that is the point

nothing

04.10.2014

We can't accept death

because we can't understand non-existence

It's not sleep

no matter what you made

Socrates say, Plato

Dying is dissolution

death is nothing

Not even a void

Not even a hope

04.10.2014

from the void born

you return to the void

like a universe

from nothing

to nothing

and between

all

04.10.2014

sounds of rain

raindrops

from the dark

beyond the windows

lost the hour

the time like frozen

in black

in rest

night and the world

opening away

in to the void

the existence

still

under the clouds

unseen

stars hidden

like words

unsaid

forever

remembered

04.10.2014